Author: Alfred Heneage Cocks
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Category : Bells
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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The Church Bells of Buckinghamshire
Author: Alfred Heneage Cocks
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Category : Bells
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : Bells
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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The Church Bells of Kent
Author: John Charles Lett Stahlschmidt
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Category : Bells
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Bells
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Shaping the Day
Author: Paul Glennie
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199278202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
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Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199278202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The boy's manual of seamanship and gunnery
Author: Charles Burney
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Former Clock & Watchmakers and Their Work
Author: Frederick James Britten
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Boy's Manual of Seamanship and Gunnery
Author: C. Burney (Captain.)
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Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Leigh in the 18th Century, 1689-1813
Author: Josiah Rose
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Category : Leigh (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Leigh (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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